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Know everything about Pear Cables v.s. The Amazing Randi? This is your forum.enTue, 03 Mar 2015 18:32:46 GMTvBulletin60http://forums.slimdevices.com/images/misc/rss.pngSqueezebox : Community : Forums - Audiophileshttp://forums.slimdevices.com/
Reformed Audiophile True Confessionshttp://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?103238-Reformed-Audiophile-True-Confessions&goto=newpost
Fri, 27 Feb 2015 23:32:09 GMTWhile there are many members here who most definitely do NOT drink that infamous Audiophile Kool-Aid, I suspect that many of those same members may have at one time or another drank deeply from that heady elixir. Although judging from my many posts calling BS on the current state of audiophile...While there are many members here who most definitely do NOT drink that infamous Audiophile Kool-Aid, I suspect that many of those same members may have at one time or another drank deeply from that heady elixir. Although judging from my many posts calling BS on the current state of audiophile (mis)beliefs, I too was once an audiophile high on that Kool-Aid (just look at my signature below to see some of the traces of those times).

With that in mind I thought that it might be amusing to hear about some of the crazier things many of you may have done while under the influence of Audiophile Kool-Aid. I'll get the ball rolling with a few my past transgressions against science and good old common sense.

A few quick disclaimers - most of my purchases throughout the years have been on the used equipment market. Since many die hard audiophiles are always chasing the next big thing and constantly upgrading the used equipment market in high end audio is a good way to pick up some rather nice equipment at much reduced cost. Luckily for me back in 2006 I purchased my first Squeezebox , which was soon followed by a Transporter and it was the move to computer based digital audio that helped to "cure" me of my audiophilia before I went completely over the edge. Most of the items listed below were purchased before the Transporter.

Dedicated circuit for my digital components with an audiophile receptacle and a single outlet "digital" power filter

Fancy headphone cables, some silver and some copper
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Wed, 25 Feb 2015 01:24:36 GMTThere's recently been some entertaining fallout as a result of Sam Tellig having quit Stereophile. It seems that for many years now, Stereophile has claimed to have a "Chinese Wall" between advertising and editorial departments. A Google search (via this LMGTFY link for ease of search) confirms many such claims.

Well, it's recently been discovered that their Advertising Manager is one Laura J. LoVecchio. She happens to be John Atkinson's wife. :D I don't know how long this situation has been the case though.
]]>Audiophilesandy_chttp://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?103223-Stereophile-s-quot-Chinese-Wall-quot-between-advertising-and-editorial-departmentsSqueezebox Touch + Toolbox 3 + EDO = XRUN Buffer issuehttp://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?103153-Squeezebox-Touch-Toolbox-3-EDO-XRUN-Buffer-issue&goto=newpost
Sun, 15 Feb 2015 16:35:27 GMTHi All,
I have currently an issue with my Squeezebox Touch using it with a USB2 DAC (Jkenny Ciunas). I have installed EDO and it's working well, however I have the impression that I had a better sound quality with the Toolbox3 from soundcheck (with my previous spdif dac).

I tried to use the TT3 on my USB2 Dac but I have a buffer (Xrun) issue. Would anybody have a solution?

What I have done so far:
- Installed EDO on the SBT
- Installed the TT3
- Tried all possible buffer sizes
- Uninstalled EDO

I think I've now completed the "quadrilogy" (tetralogy) of digital cable testing: TosLink, coaxial, USB, now ethernet. Don't think I'll do firewire since I don't have any devices using that anymore. Oops... I almost forgot, I did some HDMI cable testing in the past as well. Guess that makes that a "pentalogy" :-)

Hope everyone is having a great February.

BTW: What! Art Dudley is showing spectral graphs and talking technical now (see page 2)!? I thought the guy didn't like audio engineering!
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Thu, 12 Feb 2015 15:10:46 GMTEx SB3/Touch guy, went over to PC based audio with Jriver.
Decided to revisit Squeezebox recently, bought a Transporter and was very impressed!
So much so I'm using the Transporter (into my Dac) as my main digital music source.
Still use my music server /Jriver as an AV source, but the Transporter for choons.
Something nice about a single black box with remote for music..makes me kind of nostalgic. :)

So a question please?

In my music library I have a fair amount of 24/179 and 24/192 music, as well as DSD music and SACD rips in ISO format.
Obviously the Transporter can play 24/96 and downsample anything above...but I wonder now I'm setting off on this journey what my best move would be regarding the DSD and SACD rips?

Audio quality is obviously important, so my initial thought would be to use Jriver to create a copy of my DSD/ISO music is 24/96 PCM format, using its file conversion tools. The originals would be stored on an external drive somewhere out the road.
Seems ok?

The other question I have please is that as I've been away from squeezeboxes a while, I'm not exactly sure my file format settings are optimised for quality?
I'm one of those guys who can hear the benefit of encoding on the server side rather than onboard, and my system is revealing enough, so would prefer to do that.

Most of my music is in AIFF format, with a few hundred FLAC albums in there, so again...I wonder what the best strategy would be?
I know you can code FLAC as PCM on the server side...but can you do this with AIFF?

Coming from a PC music server background I'm very much grounded in the benefits of getting the playback device to do as little work as possible, so extra decoding/uncompressing steps in teh chain would be something I'd want to avoid.

Use Jriver to convert AIFF to Flac? To WAV?
Is there a "best way" this old ocd audiophile could be happy knowing the Transporter setup is optimised in the way I'm thinking? :)

http://archimago.blogspot.com/2015/0...hadows-in.html
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Thu, 05 Feb 2015 00:03:00 GMTI have never understood the resurgence of vinyl and the insistence of those who swear it sounds better. Perhaps my limited budget for gear will forever condemn me to enjoying digital music and missing the superior pops and hiss of my youth but I don't plan on buying back in and will have to make do with my beloved squeezebox and digital music. I found the following article an interesting read and thought some of you might as well:http://www.laweekly.com/music/why-cd...-vinyl-5352162
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